The impact of cognitive mobility and the media on the political participation of Mexicans.

This document focuses on the importance of cognitive mobility on political behavior (to vote or not) and the its influence on the voting decision of the Mexican voter. It also investigates the impact of traditional media and new media on the voting option of the electorate. Moreover, it explores the implications of birth cohort for political participation and the impact these distinct forms of information have on each generation’s political behavior. The variables of cognitive mobility are generated using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The hypotheses are tested using logit models. For the analysis of different generations, multigroup logit models are used.